Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manufacturing · North Carolina

Polymer Group, INC

Benson, NC · ~224 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Polymer Group, INC runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Polymer Group, INC: 1.0 TCR = 32% of Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Polymer Group, INC safety composite

Polymer Group, INC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Polymer Group, INC: 1.1 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2020

Polymer Group, INC's TCR rose 0.6 from 1.1 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313230 · Benson, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 32% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #4/42
  • PHOTO Southern Felt Co Nor…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~224 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southern Felt Co North Augusta (0.1 TCR gap)

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Polymer Group, INC in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Polymer Group, INC averages 1.0 TCR (32% of the Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Polymer Group, INC TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Polymer Group, INC falls in its industry

191 Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manufa establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 42 Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manufa employers in North Carolina.

Polymer Group, INC (224 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Polymer Group, INC
Polymer Group, INC (224 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Polymer Group, INC has more employees than the Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 1.6 1.2 4 0 0
2019 0.8 0.8 2 0 0
2018 0.8 0.4 2 0 0
2017 0.8 0.4 2 0 0
2016 1.1 0.4 1 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313230 · NC · Benson

191 Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 21 employers in Benson, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Southern Felt Co North Augusta 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimberly Clark LaGrange Mill 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Felt & Filter Company, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimberly Clark Maumelle 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ennis-Flint Thomasville 111-115 Campus 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Global Films - Matthews, NC 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charlotte Steel Mill 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6921-00306 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berry Global 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02545 - STORE # 2545 BENSON 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2545 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3133_6047 78 FTE
NAT-TCR Par Pharmaceutical 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Municipal Electric Utillity 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR West-Tech Contracting, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Lane New York 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Farmington 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westview Health Care Center, Inc. 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE New York, NY HVAC 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swg Phx 43rd Ave Ops Cntr 0042-Fac24 224 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.